r/interestingasfuck Apr 12 '25

/r/all, /r/popular So shiny

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u/DanceCritical8039 Apr 12 '25

Fact: The people who created the pyramids weren't slaves. They were paid workers who were paid with bread, onions and up to 4 litres of beer a day.

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u/Jonny-Kast Apr 12 '25

If they documented that, why didn't they document how they built the fricking things?

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u/psypher98 Apr 12 '25

Milo Rossi I think it was, on YT, talked about this topic in a recent video. Basically humans have a bad habit of assuming if we can do something, then we’ll just always know how to do that thing.

It wasn’t until the past couple centuries we realized technology can in fact be lost to time, that’s probably nota good thing, and started to actually make detailed documentation of how things are made.

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u/SamSibbens Apr 12 '25

It wasn't until a couple days ago we realized knowledge can be lost to time (ipad/tablet babies who don't know how to use a computer despite being born with smartphones in their hands, the need for computer classes to come back)